Water opened may 1 here, but gets best later in the summer.
I use can cat food, tuna or chicken.
Anything better ?
Lasts longer?

Made the mistake once of putting good anise oil on the bait once.....

Can of cheap tuna probably best, just poke a few holes in the can, it'll last longer that way...but any fish should be good....if crayfish are like lobsters it doesn't even need to be fresh, a little stink doesn't bother lobsters...

I’ve had good luck with dead crows!

We use fish heads in our crawfish traps.

Yank's I know bait their 'crayfish' traps with woodchucks. Some of them set them in the crick. The worst of them spell that and say that wrong too.

It help me not to have pity on what folks in southern areas have to endure for fresh water delicacies.

Sevell eats nuts off a coyote he captured in a puddle and calls it fresh water….

Chicken liver

Hot Dogs and/or Viennies work well too on "Crawdad's".

Chicken necks work good and last a long time.

R you guys using regular minnow funnel traps for them?

Fresh carp chunks.

I use to build my own and traded a bunch to others

I kind of copied shrimp traps we used in Hood Canal.

15*15*7 using 1*1 14 gauge cage wire

Simple door on top for baiting

Put ,2,3,4 funnels made from 1/2 plastic mesh.

The shrimp pot design is so much better than anything else I've ever seen

I heard about him saying that one year it was so dry, he had to sip filthy water out of hoof print and was mighty happy to have that.
I suspect that he left out the part about falling off his horse and spilled his last Lonestar in that there hoof print.

I heard he ate the mud and manure too, to not waste a drop.

Keith

Fresh fish. Nothing beats it.
I would think an old salty crab trapper like you would know that

Heads don’t last very long. I will try pulling the gills and see if that slows decay.
Looking for magic…..

A friend shoots ground hogs and put them in turtle traps with good success. Should work for crawfish also.

Ever watch a crawfish eat close up?

It ain't nothin' like a snapper ?

Crabbers used mink when there were farms in the area.

We used some mink last time I went to walport crabbing.......earlier this year......

Was thinking about eating it myself


Chicken was working well